Getting Involved in Your Community
If you’re not already involved in your community, then you’re missing out on opportunities. When you live, work, and play in the same area, you feel connected to it, and investing where you feel connected just feels good! When you’re involved in improving your community and helping the others who live, work, and play there,…
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From Intern to Full-Time: Why Your Employee Onboarding Process is Crucial to Success
How to stand out to potential new employees has been a topic before on the Rocket IT blog – through benefits from working remotely to building programs that help them thrive. But there is another way outside of the working hours of 9-5 to help your employees and attract the rockstars you’re looking for. Investing…
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Train for the Full Run
We’ve all heard the sage wisdom that life is a marathon, not a sprint. This is true about so many aspects of life. In business, this can be a perfect analogy. We have large goals and visions for the future. We can see it come together in our heads, and it all makes sense. It’s…
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The Power of Recognition
We’ve talked before on this blog about the importance of personal touch. You can make these connections in many different ways- inviting someone for coffee, having lunch with a friend, etc.. But few methods are more powerful than simple recognition. A recent Entrepreneur.Com article cited lack of recognition as the Number Two reason good employees…
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The Fallacy of Agreement
A friend recently shared a nugget of wisdom that had been passed down from his father. For days, I couldn’t get it out of my head, so I’ll share it with you in the hopes that it may be of value to you as well: Don’t necessarily seek agreement among a group; at times, seek…
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Attracting and Retaining Employees: Offering the Right Benefits
In a growing discussion of company culture and employee engagement, today’s top talent is looking at benefits as clear differentiators. Studies and news articles alike are discussing the tight rope walk of work/life unity. Mobile technology is creating connectivity that extends beyond the walls of the office and blurring these lines. Much of the workforce…
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The Judgement Hypocrisy: Judging Others by Action and Yourself by Intention
My natural state is to judge myself on my intentions, even while judging others on their actions. I doubt I am alone in this struggle. By allowing this thought process to govern us, we abdicate responsibility for our own missteps while blaming others for the slightest error, thinking “I would have done it better.” A…
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Building a Thriving Internship Program
With summer interns rolling into offices, setting them up for success is top of mind. No one wants to be known as the office that hires interns to go on coffee runs and pick up dry cleaning. We want our interns to go away with something more than a mark on their resume and ridiculously…
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Mitigating the Cost of Long Commutes
Have you ever done the math on the cost of a long commute? For those of us with employees that travel to and from work every day, the costs are staggering. Consider this very common work commute scenario: Scott has a 45-minute commute to work. That’s 1.5 hours per day or 7.5 hours per week.…
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